V22.0480-002

SP Tps: Introduction to Social Networking

Davi Geiger

Undergraduate Division

Computer Science

Office Hours and Location: to be scheduled in the first day of class.

Books: None

The course will be structured as a series of seminars from a set of papers to be
read by students. While most of the classes will be given by either the professor,
Dora Kaufman (visiting researcher) or other invited guests,
some of the seminars/classes will be presented by students as part of their
grade evaluation (equivalent of a mid term project and a final project).

Summary: The course will be permeated throughout the semester by the
study of social networks from a sociological and marketing views of the subject.
The focus however will be to transform these ideas in computational models of
networks, and as an example of this effort we cite the “Small World” model.
In the field of computational networks, as graphs that perform some functions,
there is a search for hierarchical models to better accomplish such functions.
Better in the sense of efficiency of computations and fitting to available data.
As we will investigate in the course, the study of social networks is a new
and exciting way to do it.